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  Mistaken Identity,

  Mistaken Identity,

  Midpoint

  Mistaken

  Identity!

  by

  Bo Widerberg

  Smashwords Edition

  Fortunately what you read in this story is pure

  fiction, and any resemblance to real people,

  living or dead is purely coincidental.

  ©Widerberg©

  All rights reserved.

  Why I wrote this story? It was done in self-defense. I have to blame my wife. It was because of her, and her constant harassing of my person. That I worked on the computer too much, but never made any money off of it. So here it is, the up till now untold story about Henry Potter, at last in e-book form.

  I dearly hope that someone is going to buy this book, novel, or short story, whatever it happens to be. I need to get that woman of my back.

  The story you are about to read, happened in the late part of the year two-thousand-sixty. As the scientists to date, had found four planets of Earth type. All within our own galaxy, and in what is called the Goldie-Lock zone, fairly close. Well, close enough for us to visit with the new ionic drive that can enter super-space.

  The early problem with the drive, was that the space-ship, we don't call them rockets anymore. Had to embark from a space-station, or preferable the Moon. To power up the engine within the atmosphere, the exhaust could have torn the atmosphere off of the planet.

  Well this in itself would not have proven to be a problem, if it hadn't been for the last President, President H. Potter. The President son, Harold Potter, is regarded as the best mathematical genius of this era. And he had been chosen, because of his credentials, to be the Commander of the space-ship Aurora.

  The office at the administration was given the order to assemble the staff, including of course, Harold Potter. Made only one single mistake, but what a whopper.

  Locking through the names of the full crew, thirty-seven people. The new, a young lady, staff member saw the name Potter, and entered into the computer H. Potter, instead of writing out the full name Harold. The computer as it has been programmed to do, printed out a list of all the crew-members, including a small error, Henry Potter instead of Harold Potter.

  Now we have to say, that the thirty-six crew members left, where fully capable of handling Aurora without the help of either of the two H. Potter's. It just happened that Henry Potter's dream was to Command a Space-Ship. Ever since his early childhood, it had been his only dream. And although he knew that a mistake had been made, he kept cool, and accepted the assignment when he received the telegram.

  At the administration, the mistake wasn't noticed until Aurora was well under way, and had passed the Mars, and was actually closing in on Jupiter's orbit.

  To keep it cool, and not to inform the news-media that had been all over the lift-off. The administration gave out a memo that the embarkation from the space-station had been a hundred percent success. However, the young lady that had worked the computer, was locking for a new job, in the private sector.

  Inside this large space vehicle Aurora, Henry was having a field-day. With all the stripes on his new uniform, he loved it when the crew entire gave him all the respect a Commander should have.

  Henryy was far from a top scholar, but he had passed his twelve school years with fairly good grades. And as his dreams were all about space, he had taken a computer course in space-technology at a local university.

  With this extra education, Henry did his best to fit in with the crew. It wasn't until he asked one of the bridge crew member if it was possible to adjust the height of the Commander-seat.

  “But Sir,” answered the crew member. “It was especially made to fit your body.”

  Henry, was just going to answer his opinion, when a thought hit him. “Just a minute Henry, how long legs did the person have that was supposed to have this job?”

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